Moon Society has
Opportunity to Rent
The Mars Desert Research Station
for Lunar Outpost Simulation Exercises

August 25, 2004 - The Moon Society is looking into renting
the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS)
in Utah for a two week period. The purpose would be to conduct a set
of Lunar Outpost Simulation Exercises. Such an exercise, possibly
followed by additional Moon Missions at MDRS, would help the Society
better plan the siting, design, and operation of its own Lunar Analog
Research Station as part of Project
Leto.

A window of opportunity has been provided by the Mars Society's
decision to make this facility available to other groups for 2-week
long crew rotations, for a rental charge that should be relatively
easy to cover with sponsor funds. We are putting together a team to
look into the design of a simulations program to include operations
that will be uniquely relevant to lunar outposts as well as
operations areas that will apply to both lunar and Mars outposts, but
which have not been simulated by previous MDRS crews.